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Saturday, January 30, 2016

Drop your sense of self-importance, just be!

You have to do nothing to take care of
your Life. Actually, Life has always been taking care, is taking care, and will
take care of you!

At a coffee shop the other day, two
friends were catching up at a table that was very close to mine. I was immersed
in checking Facebook on my phone. But something one of them said to the other
caught my attention. He said, “My Life is not in my hands anymore. I have to
take care of my family, my parents, my sister who is going through a divorce,
and I have to work by butt off trying to achieve my targets at work. It is
insane, but I am no longer living my Life. I am constantly running, earning,
providing for and serving others. I feel so lost, so overworked, so stressed –
all the time!”

Many of us may well be in this person’s
position. We may have the same feeling that we seem to be alive only so that we
can provide for other people. And perhaps we are tired of such an existence. Some
may even be suffering. To be sure, this is a very natural feeling when we are
overwhelmed by the challenges we face and the responsibilities that we carry.

The way to deal with this situation, if
you are feeling this way, is to stop giving yourself too much importance. A fundamental belief that comes in the
way of our living our lives fully, totally, is the view that we have to take
care of ourselves and of others ‘dependent’ on us. There’s this huge protector-provider
role that we all have self-imposed upon ourselves. Or a better way to say it is
that we have self-assumed this role. And so we go about our lives obsessed with
an avoidable sense of self-importance. We believe every problem around us needs
our immediate, urgent attention__and resolution. That everything from money to
succor, in our immediate circle of influence, must be provided for by us. And
when it doesn’t happen that way, as it often may not, we feel something’s wrong
with us, or with creation, or both and so we grieve, agonize and suffer!

Osho,
the Master, says, and only he could have said it so well: “If the whole
existence is one, and if existence goes on taking care of trees, of animals, of
mountains, of oceans__from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest
star__then it will take care of you too. Once you have started seeing the
beauty of Life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at Life with
joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you
can have only one. It is your choice.”

So observe
what’s causing you stress just now. And let it go. Let go of your self-assumed
need to be problem-solver, protector and provider. Instead just be. And then you will discover that creation will take care of
you, and all that you call your own.